Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!

I tell my kids no television and no cellphones at the table.

I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.